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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fishes, etc. A committee of supporters of him to whom you very appropriately refer as "Senator-suspect" from Pennsylvania called the meeting, advertised as a mass meeting. It was attended largely by a motley crowd from some of the worst sections of the city. They came for a good show of cheap demagogic fireworks, and for the most part, they were not disappointed. For some unknown reason, the committee invited Senator Smoot to address this meeting, informing him that he was to speak to a meeting of Philadelphia businessmen. He came with a masterly presentation of facts concerning the taxation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee set aside the McKellar complaint against President Hoover's failure to submit Mr. Mellon's nomination to the Senate, as mere legal piffling. Some 200 precedents were available to show that appointments did not require reconfirmation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Nipper-Snapping | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...York season Boston is privileged to see a few of the more noteworthy stage celebrities. Walter Hampden's "Cyrano de Bergerac" and Eva La Gallienne's Repertory company are both attractions of the very near future, and only slightly more remote is the promise of "Show Boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/27/1929 | See Source »

Last year Coach Wray's men were defeated by Harvard in a triangular regatta with Tech over the Charles River Basin course but the race two weeks from tomorrow will be a dual affair. Cornell did not show up very well at the Poughkeepsie Regatta last June although the crew was leading the field at the mile mark. A return to a period of championship crews resembling the great eights of Coach Courtney's long regime is hailed by the followers of the oarsmen from Lake Cayuga...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ROWING RIVALS FACE FOES | 4/26/1929 | See Source »

Gallery XIV contains a small exhibition of nineteenth and twentieth century French drawings and paintings. Several of these have been held over from last month's French Show, but a great many of them are anonymous loans - which have not previously appeared in the Fogg. Among these are drawings by Matisse, Degas, and Picasso. There is also a "Head" by Zak which was recently given to the Museum by Mr. A.C. Goodyear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 4/25/1929 | See Source »

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